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Thinness - Rickets - Growth Disorders

Rachitis is a growth and ossification disorder due to a defect in the intestinal absorption of calcium and phosphorus, linked to vitamin D deficiency.

The bones are “soft”, fragile and deformed. The child has an arch of the legs due to the body mass supported by the weak lower limbs.

Thinnessis defined by a lasting loss of fatty tissue, coinciding or not with poor development or atrophy of the muscular masses or viscera.

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